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Dedicating my 2000 post to fallen hero Wangari Maathai. Former nobel peace laureate.

Its true that nollywood has found its way on kenyan streets but its limited to a few people.The women. Men hate those movies cz they are quite addictive and emotional (appeal to women)and at times full of stuff.(you know wht am talking about).

I think the people trying to make it in Kenya are the pastors. Even though a few credible ones have left a sour taste in people's mouths by engaging in immorality with members and bringing some strange gospel based mostly on miracles and prosperity.
Kenyans have this habit of losing interest very fast and before long you are left alone as soon as they realise you got nothing more to offer.

Music? you got it wrong. They only rem the nigerian musicians when they come into the country. The music selling in EA is mainly from Congo,UG and TZ. Each has great musicians and their music sells and appeals to a greater audience in the East. They have their own dancing style or swags.Nameless,wahu,amani,chamelion,juliana,lady jd,kanji,juakali,wyre,marlaw,and many many more.I guess the swahili has greater impact and cuts across these countries. Majority of kenyans love congolese music.

Now the thing that cannot be disputed is the dressing.I too love those nigerian dresses plus headgear.Every woman in Kenya loves them.They wear them on occasions and weekends.The best thing from nigeria to grace the kenyan streets are those dresses plus headgears. Beautiful.

Problem is a few bad people spoil cz every now and then smbody gets arrested at the airport with drugs.It always involves a kenyan woman and a nigeria man. crazy so they treat everyone suspiciously.

^^ just did it for you.

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ope that is helpful

Those qualifications are way above what many people can achieve in their lifetime.

I hate cancer. It makes big people bow out early before their time.

engineerd:
A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

mmh not really.read this biography and you will realize that peace laureate is only but a title. There's more in that prize.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/maathai.jpg

Wangari was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught veterinary anatomy. She became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those positions in the region. Wangari Maathai was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in 1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it into a broad-based, grassroots organization whose main focus is the planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds.

In 1986, the Movement established a Pan African Green Belt Network and has exposed over 40 individuals from other African countries to the approach. Some of these individuals have established similar tree planting initiatives in their own countries or they use some of the Green Belt Movement methods to improve their efforts. So far some countries have successfully launched such initiatives in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, etc). In September 1998, she launched a campaign of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition. She has embarked on new challenges, playing a leading global role as a co-chair of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which seeks cancellation of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the year 2000. Her campaign against land grabbing and rapacious allocation of forests land has caught the limelight in the recent past.

Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She has addressed the UN on several occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly for the five-year review of the earth summit. She served on the commission for Global Governance and Commission on the Future. She and the Green Belt Movement have received numerous awards, most notably The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Others include The Sophie Prize (2004), The Petra Kelly Prize for Environment (2004), The Conservation Scientist Award (2004), J. Sterling Morton Award (2004), WANGO Environment Award (2003), Outstanding Vision and Commitment Award (2002), Excellence Award from the Kenyan Community Abroad (2001), Golden Ark Award (1994), Juliet Hollister Award (2001), Jane Adams Leadership Award (1993), Edinburgh Medal (1993), The Hunger Project's Africa Prize for Leadership (1991), Goldman Environmental Prize (1991), the Woman of the World (1989), Windstar Award for the Environment (1988), Better World Society Award (1986), Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Woman of the Year Award (1983). Professor Maathai was also listed on UNEP's Global 500 Hall of Fame and named one of the 100 heroines of the world. In June 1997, Wangari was elected by Earth Times as one of 100 persons in the world who have made a difference in the environmental arena. Professor Maathai has also received honorary doctoral degrees from several institutions around the world: William's College, MA, USA (1990), Hobart & William Smith Colleges (1994), University of Norway (1997) and Yale University (2004).

The Green Belt Movement and Professor Wangari Maathai are featured in several publications including The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach (by Professor Wangari Maathai, 2002), Speak Truth to Power (Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, 2000), Women Pioneers for the Environment (Mary Joy Breton, 1998), Hopes Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, 2002), Una Sola Terra: Donna I Medi Ambient Despres de Rio (Brice Lalonde et al., 1998), Land Ist Leben (Bedrohte Volker, 1993).

Professor Maathai serves on the boards of several organizations including the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament, The Jane Goodall Institute, Women and Environment Development Organization (WEDO), World Learning for International Development, Green Cross International, Environment Liaison Center International, the WorldWIDE Network of Women in Environmental Work and National Council of Women of Kenya.

In December 2002, Professor Maathai was elected to parliament with an overwhelming 98% of the vote. She was subsequently appointed by the president, as Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife in Kenya's ninth parliament.

Lax75:
Pendo Babes

Boko Haram are Hausa.

Hausa sounds muslim so they marry within their own and their women? I guess they look like somalis. Must be 'beautiful'

_{Am African. Bred in the sahara and speak mara.}

[quote author=Mrs, Chima link=topic=776293.msg9299357#msg9299357 date=1318081955]Apparently other groups doesn't exist.[/quote]They must be a very small minority then.

Well if it was hacked, she ought to have changed her primary email and password fast then register afresh. That is why access was denied but what has she done about it so far?  Nothing    Fb will always alert you through mail if an anonymous person tries to login into your account plus the exact location.
Now why did she not act on it if she is a regular poster?? 5 days is just too long to sit and ignore such a thing. Does she not cherish privacy? Somebody could be messing up your wall and there's absolutely no peace in that.

Ask her to follow the instructions on her mail and change her pw plus username. well if she a peddler she may refuse to do this becoz she could lose clients and biz. .Once that is done,open your own 'silly temporary fb account'. post fake pic of a handsome loaded dude with sexy name like Leon No exagerrations, then and send her friend request. Adjust your privacy settings so that she sees nothin else that may arouse suspicion. This is testing
If she accepts start flirting with her and promise her a bb plus a jet on condition  ABC. I believe that a love peddler would be more interested in money than your list of friends.
Thats called Busted then you simply delete the account after accomplishing mission and dumping her.

Or better still use one of your trusted friends to send her request and 'play client.'dont worry if he takes her away from you cz that wld be further proof tht shes indeed what the guy claims she is.

But its easy to tell what your bf/gf does if she/he is friend on fb.Her wall will speak and reveal a few stuff unless the settings are extremely private.
whtever u do,they say where theres smoke theres fire,it could be a jilted lover or a just nice guy sending alarm

oh boy what century are we living in?

There's a world out there. A jujuless world full of jujuless talk and thoughts! The more you talk about this RUBBISH the more you believe.
It's delusional and only those who believe it experience it.
How can you sit and wait to hear about juju expe? Lord have mercy.

rudia:
Thread nzima ni nyinyi wawili tu!! Hamjambo kweli, bado hiyo hali gani!!!!

maze karibu.Huyu msee amenitoa jasho na sina supporter! kutupa mbao!!

^^ Beautiful elegant woman.

Lax75 where are you? I rem this pic lol! rem the woli story?

Now what kind of names are those?  @ D'Arkisanya (IV)

Their passports must be very long in width.

Orikinla:
Many of the Nigerian pastors are not Christians, because they engaged in occultism behind the backs of their congregations.

The confessions of a partner about what he and his so called pastor did to help him hook a lady were enough to make anyone cringe.

The pastor did rituals on his behalf. And he pretends to be a nice man in public.
I have witnessed two marriages based on falsehood since I returned to Lagos three years ago.

Imagine someone taking your picture to perform rituals?
The "pastor" goes to a mountain to pray with it.
That was why I asked my last girlfriend to return the only picture I gave her, but she said she burnt it when we argued over my refusal of her request to visit me in Lagos.
"Why did you burn my photograph?"
I called her a witch for doing that. And she proved to be one later.
But she would pass for an innocent babe on Nairaland and Facebook.
Because only a witch will date a wizard.

thts funny.

At times reading some stuff here makes one think we are still living in the neanderthal age.  Even homohabilis wasn't a wizard!
In this day and age people still do all these silly rituals and they affect them that bad? where do people get time to perform them and why so gullible! people are learned! well they ought to know better.
I always say what you believe in will eventually rub on you. you talk and believe in rituals and you subconsciously become a ritualist.
I cannot even sit down to listen to such 'prayer mixed with rituals tales.It makes me itch,and irritated. I would leave you talking alone!
Clear your mind, think developmental stuff and get busy trying to bring change into the world! You wont have time to laze around and act greedy cz this is a village mentality not a global one.
Do not engage/listen/watch or keep talking about them because the more you do and the more intense they sound the greater the belief.
While the world is developing, others are on the mountains with pastors,wizards and pictures!! ope they get mauled by hyenas one day.

@ topic 'dont force yourself on a Man/Woman.

freecocoa:
The Devil like I was made to believe has two ugly horns,is very black in nature and lives in hell fire but being on nairaland has made me realize the truth,he is not in hell but lives in many people especially on NL.

Oh gal you cracked my ribs by that statement .

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The world descended on Nairobi’s Uhuru Park Saturday to mourn renown environmentalist and 2004 Nobel laureate Prof Wangari Maathai.
Diplomats, heads of international organisations, and government representatives flew into Nairobi for the final send-off of Kenya’s conservation legend.

The funeral was held at the grounds, which Prof Maathai stopped the Moi government from constructing a 60-storey skyscraper, in one of her most notable battles to protect the environment. She has been cremated in a coffin made from water hyacinth and papyrus reeds harvested from Lake Victoria. Green Belt Movement said yesterday they also used a few frames cut from a bamboo tree the Nobel Laureate had planted at her Lavington home. GBM executive director Prof Karanja Njoroge said the coffin was weaved by carpenters from the Kisumu Innovation Centre  at Kibuye market.

This lady loved trees even in death.

The country is honoured her today by planting millions of trees countrywide.

RIP wangari. you left a good legacy. We shall dearly miss you.


Beautiful youtube clips by her.You will love them

"I will be a hummingbird" - Wangari Maathai - beautifully animated clip.
''Taking Root The Vision of Wangari Maathai-you -the dramatic story

Easy then,just carry over everything from other sections,attach romantic to it and you got everything romantic.
romantic crime,romantic politics,romantic technology,romantic foods wow,romantic cultures, and last but not least.ROMANTIC RELIGION!!
romance is everywhere. beautiful.

But thats what stroke does.
will call it romantic stroke then.

After all is said and done. My question is,where is the victim and where is her voice in all these? she doesn't have to be seen in public cz she has suffered stigma.
She needs to think about other 'potential victims' if she wants justice done.( well ie if it is)Otherwise all this hulabaloo is just noise.
Are there no 'women's right protection groups to cover her identity but still get her voice to be heard?
She can even move to another state and start life afresh after testifying in private. nway.
just take care of yourselves

kenyaman:
I am a Kenyan but never knew MAINA NJENGA till I followed the Hague issue under prosecutor OCAMPO 6

really? even the madman by the roadside knows him. Every school kid knows him. That dude made headlines for weeks during his dramatic arrest,release and later conversion in church.His wife and bro were shot as they were driving to Nakuru and was buried when he was released from prison almost a year later.He repented went to church and thousands upon thousands of mungiki youth denounced the group after Maina converted to christianity. Hes never gone back.He's a pastor and takes care of thousands of idle young people who were his followers. He feeds them and they work on his farm as casual labourers with their families.
You never see or hear him in public anymore.

But those mungikis are cowards.Without a leader they are weak and useless. That is why you hardly hear them

TheCongo:
Pendo, I am just curious,

Are you suggesting that where you come from the US embassy has access to your governemnt and police database to know everything about each visa's applicant?

Mapendo mingi ndugu. Ninasema Swahili ya Congo

Jambo ndugu!. mimi ni dada sio ndungu.nafurahi kuona watu wanaongea swahili hapa nl. Huwa niko peke yangu.

If they suspect anything on the info you filled they will know but then you will wonder how they knew. By the way this is just an insiders info. _{op i dont get arrested}. Why I believe it? Because of the nature of questions they ask 'some'applicants. Do not quote me but was told they dig out some stuff about you so when you appear for interview it's just a brush over, no wonder it takes minutes. They have gone through the lil nitty details you filled,verified ,confirmed its true and if they doubt anything they will ask you a question along that line then wait to hear your answer.
This is where most people trip and are told sorry maam/sir.you did not qualify.try next time.And you go complaining

Best way to qualify? be honest and show them you very much love your country and have better things to do back home than US.
Most people fail because they talk as if US is heaven to them.No show them you will be  back to invest in your country cz its the bomb.

You wanna know if that is true call the embassy.No they wont tell you anything of course.Just be honest when filling out the form

20 yrs ago? uuhm I dont really know but I think we are derailing from travel to sports true/false?

Africa again! love it.
Sad though happening on the same day a requiem mass was held for the former peace laureate Wangari Maathai. The first black woman to receive it.
She's being cremated tomorrow and will be given a state funeral.

^^
seriously how can anybody in nl help you? Only the embassy can avail a date and it will show online. nobody else can.
Keep checking the site cz thats is the stressfull part.
See my dear the dates become available and are taken up by people like you waiting to grab.Just keep trying cz some people cancel.what will you do if u used an agent who later withholds vital info from you in order to extort money?

Its you,embassy and internet. Those should be your friends.

sexkillz:
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